Yesterday morning, my dad needed to move the van that has been sitting unmoved in our driveway for about 2 years. The battery was dead though, so our neighbor loaned us his battery charger. We popped the hood and were greeted by a very shocking sight.

Right under the hood of the van was this giant wasp nest filled with angry wasps! For the last couple months, I've always noticed that there is at least one lone wasp flying around the driveway on Saturday mornings. I was always confused why it just seemed to hover around the van not going anywhere. Turns out, it was probably just guarding the nest. Well, now there was more than just one. We had about two dozen wasps flying around the van now, angry that someone had disturbed their nest. We backed off and tried to figure out what to do. The neighbor brought out some heavy duty bug spray and totally drenched the nest in poison. That of course, made them even more angry. My dad decided to grab the electric fly swatter and start frying these wasps. Our neighbor was pretty handy with his bug spray, as the can shot out a fairly long stream of poison. With it, he was able to hit wasps that were flying three feet above his head.

I watched from a safe distance as both my dad and my neighbor stood there killing wasps. My neighbor commented on my dad's uncanny ability to hit those things with the electric swatter with deadly accuracy. To which my dad responded:

"I play ping-pong."

When all was said and done, the wasp nest was gone, and only a few wasps remained alive, writhing in pain from the poison. We hooked up the battery charger and later that night I was able to move the van out from the driveway. Two bug encounters in a week? Let's hope I don't have a third encounter.